From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
Am??rico Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.27 will be a longtime supported kernel
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:03:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F52524.4000903@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081014210437.GA17338@kroah.com>
Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:10:54PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
>>On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 03:37:05PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>
>>>If the question is why it isn't .26 or .28:
>>>
>>>I'm checking whether my computer works fine with a kernel, and also
>>>very slightly what distributions might use a kernel, but in the end
>>>it's pretty random.
>>
>>So any distributions using .27 by the looks of it? It looks like Debian
>>is going with .26 for the 5.0 release, so if nothing else they will have
>>to be maintaining that one for quite a while. I suppose having someone
>>maintain .27 makes sense in that case.
>
>
> Fedora, Ubuntu, and openSUSE are going to be based on .27 from what I
> can tell.
According to distrowatch, Mandriva and Gentoo as well.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-14 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-09 23:59 Linux 2.6.27 Linus Torvalds
2008-10-11 21:03 ` Linux 2.6.27 will be a longtime supported kernel Adrian Bunk
2008-10-12 4:02 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2008-10-12 4:10 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-10-12 7:00 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-10-13 11:27 ` Américo Wang
2008-10-13 12:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-10-14 20:10 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-10-14 21:04 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2008-10-14 22:43 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-14 22:48 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-10-14 23:23 ` Greg KH
2008-10-14 23:03 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2008-10-15 2:27 ` Greg KH
2008-10-13 12:42 ` Alex Howells
2008-10-13 12:58 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-14 17:12 ` Chris Friesen
2008-11-13 22:46 ` Linux 2.6.27 Bill Davidsen
2008-11-14 15:30 ` Stefan Richter
2008-11-14 17:56 ` Bill Davidsen
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